• Eldritch@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    What data do you have to prove that? I get that you believe it. That doesn’t make something true. Institutional educations can still vary considerably. As could apprenticeships. Standardization and accreditation are things external to both of them.

    No I haven’t. I simply pointed out that many people lack the skills for so called unskilled labor. And how it’s largely derisive negative bullshit used to minimize and “other” people. Labor is labor. Every person should be able to support themselves via their labor in our society. If you work hard and specialize in a field. Your reward/payment is people’s gratitude, respect, and defference as a subject matter expert. Don’t get me wrong. As I said, surgeons, engineers etc etc etc deserve respect as anyone does for their work. But who do you think would be missed more if they suddenly disappeared one day. All the highly specialized educated people or all the unskilled labor? Think about it carefully in the context of all of human history. I’m not saying that so-called highly skilled labor doesn’t help make society better. All labor does.

    • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      7 months ago

      Mate everyone here agrees with you on that even entry level jobs should pay enough to pay rent, but that’s not any kind of argument for your claim.

      Unskilled/entry level (whatever you wanna call it) is just simply that, minimal requirements to get started. And (almost) all labor is valuable, no one is arguing against that.

      Go have a sip of tea, read through your own messages and try understand where you went wrong.

      Have a good ${TIME_OF_THE_DAY}

    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      At what fucking point did I say or imply that they shouldn’t be compensated with a living wage? I’ve done unskilled labor, I’ve done high skilled labor. I think everyone even those unable to labor should be able to sleep indoors, have reasonable financial security, and all the other basic shit. I just also think that some labor should require a formal education because my current labor is strongly assisted by my formal education.

      Your arguments have been all over the place and you’re arguing against people who aren’t taking the positions you insist we are. I’m a fucking communist. I don’t think engineers and physicians need to seize the means of production, but all of labor and yeah that includes retail workers.

      And yeah many people do lack the skills to do a lot of unskilled labor, but it’s the difference between a week of training and a few years of training. And that’s fine, some really important things are difficult for reasons other than knowing out how to do them.